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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1906
Page
6
The Emmons County Record notes North Dakota editors like Winship and Patterson face renewed criticism from Republican papers for alleged attacks on GOP readers. It cites Roosevelt’s recent corner-stone speech and Bunyan’s muckraker parable to frame calls for integrity.
Word via telephone reached Linton that San Francisco was experiencing a terrific earthquake with citywide damage and unclear details forthcoming. The report lacks specifics on time, impact, or casualties.
April visits by John Bader to Linton are noted. The Winona hotel has closed its doors to the public. Mrs. Thos McCrory is very ill in a Bismarck hospital. John Stiles sells spring and summer dress materials. A Friday party at the B D Coonen home on April 1st. Miss Marie Spear, previously teaching Glanavon school No 4, called home to Madison SD due to a sister's illness. Edith Seney acts as substitute.
April notices report L Feinstein ill in Minneapolis. Milwaukee Motel changes landlords to Jacob Baschuman. Banker Hezel plans to move family to farm east of town. A. Feinstein and C. Wentz travel to Canada for business and family reasons. Sheri Welsh arrives from Bismarck to head Gen Iiuldade and May Fadden helps. a horse theft near Bismarck is under inquiry. Dennis completes Catholic church portlet town contract and begins Cash Bazar building with Sehatt Bros. and Wald. Building includes lodge hall upstairs. For sale new drophead sewing machine. A bay mare with white face and legs is for sale. Owner to call and pick up. Signed Anton B. Volk Winona NJ D, Residence Sec 4 Wo 130 Ross.
Ten head of registered Shorthorn and Polled Durham cattle from Barr & Sons Davenport Iowa offered for sale. Contact Yearen at Cherry Grove Ranch four miles west of Braddock for details and viewing this year.
A dark bay gelding about four years old with a light tail dark mane white face and white left hind foot was found in Westfield North Ipswich area. The horse has a visible brand and has been at the price all winter. Owner to call, pay charges, and remove the animal. Kraas HoIsenca p12-20.
I B Oscoop introduces Leonard Biddlecomb to the district as the new teacher. Eighth grade students find Shakespeare's As You Like It amusing. Last Thursday all students were excused at 2:50 p m to rehearse for next Friday night entertainment.
The report notes total enrollment 26 with an average attendance of 24 and no tardies this month. Lena Meier Margaret Meier and Ethel Wescott entered school this week while Fred Reamer returned Monday evening from Bismarck. The class enjoyed a candy-egg party after recess Monday afternoon.
The Easter rabbit visit delighted pupils in the primary room at the Iva and Ruth Packard school. A Friday night open house program lists music, recitations, solos, and plays by primary and intermediate pupils, with two Robins Bessie Petrie Myrtle Clayton among performers. Local notices advertise a farm loan from Linton State Bank and land for sale in Aberdeen area.
Hazelton April 4 Republican voters of Ammons County urged to back ALENANDENM Macho for State Senate in the ith Senatorial District on the official November ballot The filing notes the candidacy is subject to Republican primary voters across the district with respect.
The Northern Pacific Railway offers a dainty portfolio souvenir featuring twelve pressed wild flower specimens from Yellowstone National Park. The publication includes six full-page illustrations and costs 50 cents, mailed prepaid. Address A.M. Crr LAND, General Passenger Agent, St. Paul, Minnesota.
An explosion during target practice on the battleship Kearsarge near Guantanamo Cuba killed Lieutenant John M Hudgins Turret Captain Julius A Koester and four seamen. Lieutenant Joseph W Graeme and Seaman W King were fatally injured with King not expected to live. The ship suffered limited damage and the incident occurred on the second anniversary of a Missouri Pensacola accident.
A gas blast in the Walker block Fargo caused a 5000 fire with rapid basement spread. North Dakota Newspaper Union and Walker Brothers & Hardy report losses. union printers insured for 30000, total damages around 50000. Mer chants National Fire Insurance offices and Beebe also damaged with books and fixtures ruined.
Thomas W. Schalberg fifty years old and brother of Mrs. D. M. Holmes and County Commissioner F. W. Schalberg of Grand Forks died after drinking carbolic acid mistaken for cough medicine. He lived at Sherwood and ran a livery business and farmed. He was nursing his ill brother on a Sherwood farm when the bottle was ingested, were taken to a Sherwood doctor but could not be saved.
A coroner's jury concludes that Jane a Finlander found dead beside a flax-covered ditch near Blanchard was murdered. They cannot determine the manner or killer. The victim, once a farm worker near Blanchard, quit before Sept 20 and cashed a wage check in Hillsboro the next day. his body was found days later.
The Northwestern Educational Association of North Dakota was permanently organized at Minot with officers: President Professor B. Henry Wolfe Minot Vice President Professor E. G. Warren Minot Secretary Anna Peterson Rugby Treasurer Professor E. R. Brownson Williston. About 100 school teachers from five Northwestern counties attended the initial meeting. The group aims to advance Western North Dakota schools.
Scarlet fever sweeps the Wagner household twelve miles southwest of Fessenden. Four children have died. two of the remaining three are ill. Mrs. John Schlanker Jr died March 14 after marrying two months. Regina seventeen Karl nine Magdalen twelve also perished. Gottlieb thirteen and Emma two are ill with slight hopes of recovery.
President Worst of the North Dakota Agricultural College announced arrangements with the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads to establish about six demonstration farms in western and northwestern North Dakota. Three will run along each line in Burleigh Morton and Billings counties on the Northern Pacific and Ward McHenry and Nelson counties on the Great Northern, with Stark already hosting a sub experiment farm.
A bankruptcy case featuring sensational allegations and expected startling developments is scheduled for trial before Judge Amidon in the federal court at Fargo on April 24. The case pits J. W. Hinges as trustee for Lorge & Knorr against Western Implement Company and the Smith-Zfimmer Company.
University of North Dakota regents accept Carnegie conditions for a 30000 dollar gift and plan to add a similar amount to reach a 50000 dollar library building fund this year. The library houses just over 20000 volumes and continues to grow.
In Ste. Marie Michigan April 17 the Saxona and Eugene Zimmer collided at the foot of the dyke in the Soo passage. The Saxona struck the Zimmerman twenty feet back of the bow on the port side crushing through the hull. Both vessels went down.
The Zimmerman sank in twenty feet of water on the Canadia Side of the river while the Saxona, bound from Duluth with flaxseed, swerved and tied bow to stream near Little Mud Lake. The Savona continued downstream. both ships are high class Jake craft and insurers face substantial hull and cargo losses.
Tokyo reports 109 dead and 19 injured from a southern Formosa quake with higher tolls expected. Kagi and Ajensui areas show extensive destruction, with hundreds of buildings collapsed or damaged and several deaths reported.
In Windber Pennsylvania during a strike riot three men were shot dead and a boy fatally wounded. Mining engineer En gene Delaney is hospitalized in serious condition. Sheriff Begley and Governor Penny packer are sought for troops amid terror as foreigners dominate the victims and undertakers are barred from removing the bodies.
New Yorker Senator Thomas C. Platt says he will not seek re election to the U S Senate when his term ends in 1900. He speaks of concluding his public office service and provides little comment on the insurance investigation’s influence on his decision.
In Savannah on April 13 Judge Speer sentenced Greene and Gaynor to four years in the penitentiary and fines of 575,749 dollars each for fraudulently obtaining that amount from the United States government. The defense will file a bill of exceptions and requested a thirty day extension for counsel to prepare it.
The preliminary hearing of John R. Walsh, former president of the Chicago National Bank, charged with alleged mismanagement, has been continued for the fifth time. The next hearing date is set for April 26. In Columbus Ohio reports from Hocking Valley claim 10 to 15 percent of state mine output is operating as workers return on promises of wage increases to the 1403 scale.
The anthracite mine workers offered two options to the operators: resubmit the original demands with two amendments or submit the dispute to the strike commission. Operators hinted they may reject both, with an official written reply due and no further meetings unless developments arise. Negotiations edge toward a breakdown as delegates contemplate a strike.
Senator Alger has resumed his seat in the senate after illness. The visit of Eupoecor Williams to Spain is postponed to autumn. Reports of goods landed from the bat. NMeship Oregon at San Francisco are false. Prof Nathaniel S Shaler dies of pneumonia in Cambridge Mass. Coal prices rise across Illinois mines from 1 to 1.50 a ton amid feared shortages.
A report lists about fifty new typhoid fever cases to the Pittsburgh bureau. Other items note Carnegie Steel contracts for two blast furnaces in Rankin Pa, and heavy American gold purchases in London for U S accounts totaling about five million dollars.
Springfield Missouri April 17 Leslie Peters sixteen years old shot and killed one of two negro assailants who attacked him while escorting a young lady home. At the gate the assailants fired twice but Peters dodged and returned fire killing one attacker. the other fled. The incident occurred near the young lady's home after a party.
A mob of about 3,000 in Springfield Missouri stormed the jail Saturday night, dragging Horace Duncan Jim Copeland and Will Allen from custody. They were killed by burning in the courthouse square amid rioting and arson as authorities sought to prevent further race violence.
Six companies of state militia patrol Springfield Missouri as quiet returns. Public sentiment shifts as residents condemn the lynching of three black men and the burning of their bodies. An assistant attorney general aids county officials, warrants issued for mob leaders, and deputies prepare arrests.
April 14 Naples reports show sun and fewer eruptions. Clean up continues as towns reopen and residents return. Bodies recovered in Ottajano San Guiseppe and Santa Anastasia with about 500 dead and 5000 houses damaged or destroyed. Troops and engineers aid road restoration and rebuilding efforts.
Secretary Shaw allows National City Bank to draw gold from the U S treasury pending arrival of gold import from London. The bank may use government gold upon depositing bounds to cover the import amount, which totals over 10 million dollars. Gold advanced by the treasury will be returned immediately upon receipt of the foreign shipment.
Fragmented OCR notes describe a Wednesday to Thursday legislative sequence. Mentions of Senate and House sessions, a variety of bills, and references to Platt and joint actions. Also notes on completed and pending measures and an appropriation discussion.
A chaotic fire panic at St. Ladislaus Roman Catholic Church on West Tweentsmount Street and Albany Avenue injures several, with a boy reportedly hurt and multiple bystanders bruised as chaos ends. Report mentions debate over arbitration lines proposed by John T. Winder amid the crisis.
The fragments indicate market notes from Duluth dated April with references to Northern wheat prices on futures tracks. Mentions include track numbers 1 and 2 Northern, July and April delivery notes, and some price figures such as 74 and 117.
St Paul and Chicago cattle and hog prices listed for April 16 with quotes on steers cows and heifers stockers and feeders Texans and mixed lots plus sheep lambs and dairy and poultry items. Grain and oilseed futures for wheat corn oats flax and soybeans noted with May July dates and prices.
Report from Charlestown West Virginia details a collision of two mine cars at Terry Mine of Stanwell Coal Company in the River field. One hundred feet of track collapse killed two miners and eleven others fatally injured or seriously hurt.
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